Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Parquet had existed , he thought , since at least 1883 when a reforming Minister of Justice had unearthed in his office some Arabic translations of parts of the French Code Napoleon and promulgated them as the new Egyptian legal system . |
| 2 | At which Lupescu collapses in fits of hysterical laughter , and crawls over to Ceauşescu and embraces his knees and kisses his feet , saying , ‘ Thank you , Comrade , for a joke like that , I could get ten dollars ! ’ |
| 3 | Back at the tent it is getting late , so I set up the Trangia and cook myself a meal . |
| 4 | We camped upriver from the falls , stalling the leap into the chasm of some of the water by boiling it on the Trangia and making it into Earl Grey tea . |
| 5 | She dropped her passenger in the centre of Anduze and made her way back to Roziac . |
| 6 | I detest the dawn in which ‘ Guernica ’ publicly relinquished its place of ignominy , rising again like the Phoenix and transforming its ashen presence into a concrete threat to the future . |
| 7 | That 's why we went on to Seattle and Phoenix and worked our way back east again through the south , through Texas , Florida and Tennessee and it ended up going more than twice its length because of the success of the show . |
| 8 | When the platoon is ambushed , Barnes shoots Elias and leaves him for dead . |
| 9 | And th there 's a lot of , for Sainsburys the , the feeling being that if Sainsburys also agreed to take it , that lots of other , if there are any others , would follow suit cos everybody seems to look at Sainsburys and see what they 're doing . |
| 10 | McAllister 's thoughts were growing nastier and nastier , but she could not endure the sight of the woman who Matey had said had trampled on Dr Neil and rejected him after he had sustained his war wounds and started his new career as a doctor . |
| 11 | In particular , will your erstwhile political columnist , R W Johnson , apologise for the appalling piece of sexism that appeared in NSS ( under a previous editor ) on 7 December 1990 , when he suggested that the only way for Labour to win the next election would be for Glenys Kinnock to ‘ have a word ’ with Neil and persuade him to stand down ? |
| 12 | I could of done the same at home , I would of liked to have looked after Neil and kept my own electric |
| 13 | That 's why they are determined to triumph on Tuesday and lift themselves into a respectable position in Group Three from which the favourites to qualify are Spain , Denmark and the Republic of Ireland . |
| 14 | She starts school on Tuesday and asked us if we were still all going together , which we are . ’ |
| 15 | As last year , they will bring the skip on a Tuesday and remove it a week later . |
| 16 | If so , then why not take it along to the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum next Tuesday and let it be admired . |
| 17 | We 've even had customers ring up on a Wednesday after a delivery on Tuesday and say they 're sold out . |
| 18 | Sampson had no damn right to appear on a Tuesday and fuck everything up . |
| 19 | John and I will pick up Erica and see you soon . ’ |
| 20 | We buy two pints of Taylor Walker and take them out on to the rear balcony . |
| 21 | I thanked Didier and told him to run home . |
| 22 | After a long rather awful ordeal , the three children escape from the rule of Dr Adams and rejoin their true families . |
| 23 | In the southernmost bay we engaged most valiantly with a band of savage islanders who scaled the walls of the sloop Rebecca and torched her timbers , but we consigned the greater part of them to the sea for pasture for the fishes that teem therein . |
| 24 | Selkirk stood , looked down at Corbett and patted him on the head . |
| 25 | The Prior , no man 's fool , stared hard at Corbett and shook his head in warning . |
| 26 | She was going to murder Margaret tomorrow , going off with Dennis and leaving them like that . |
| 27 | In London , the day after war was declared , two policemen arrived to question John Macnab and search his flat . |
| 28 | It is important to determine whether Bcl-2 blocks c-Myc-induced proliferation as well as apoptosis : the synergy between c-Myc and Bcl-2 can easily be rationalized if Bcl-2 blocks only the apoptotic function of c-Myc and leaves its mitogenic activity unaffected . |
| 29 | Eastwood played a Secret Service agent , Frank Horrigan , who froze when the first shot was fired that day in Texas and blamed himself for JFK 's death . |
| 30 | With Osbern of Eu and a group of his own leaders and their following , Thorfinn had visited the Lothians and made his views known to the offending bands with frightening precision . |